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Sumela Monastery
At the end of the 2025-26 English football season, Mohamed Salah departed Liverpool Football Club. His 9-year tenure at the club saw multiple club scoring records broken as ‘Mo’ notched up 257 goals...
View ArticleMB is less than 2% Neanderthal
An extended family member of MB, a far-out one, was recently contacted by a half-sibling that she never knew she had. Out of the blue. A totally unexpected contact. In short, a shock. The half-sibling...
View ArticleMB is holed up in Doha, Qatar – And he’s run out of TimTams!
Thursday evening 05 February 2026 @ 19.15 Holy schmoley! MB ran out of TimTams this morning. He made his way immediately to the local Megamart supermarket, which is a well-known source of TimTam...
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MB is holed up in Doha, Qatar & enjoying the TimTams
Followers of MB are no doubt glued to various global news channels in their home countries, consuming the explosive news from MB’s neck of the Middle East woods. MB is pleased to report that he is...
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The GRANGE STONE CIRCLE
MB was back home in recent days, having spent Christmas holiday in the Middle East for various reasons. MB left a cold winter desert climate behind and fell into the Irish version, which wasn’t...
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The SULTANATE OF OMAN
Many of the countries of the Arabian Gulf are headline grabbers from time to time, and some are constantly in the news. Saudi Arabia, UAE (which contains the Emirates of Dubai and Abu Dhabi), Yemen,...
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A Drinking Emporium
It’s a long, long, way from Clare to here, as that old Ralph McTell song told us. But Ralph wrote the song, with the immortal line, after hearing it uttered from the mouth of a melancholy Clareman as...
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Kilkenny
MB was back in his homeland in recent weeks. The weather was early Summerish with tiny buds and mini leaves in evidence on the trees; the normal deep Irish green mostly therefore confined to the vivid...
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Tashkent, Uzbekistan
In 1219AD Ghengis Khan flattened Tashkent, then part of the Khwarazmian Empire. In early August 2024, MB and daughter MB2 travelled to take a look. Why Uzbekistan MB? And why Tashkent? A Tashkent...
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A Sudani Wedding in Cairo – The Wedding
It was time for the wedding party. MB and BR donned their glad rags and headed to the wedding hall to join a few hundred Sudanis who had traveled from all over the globe to celebrate the wedding of...
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A Sudani Wedding in Cairo – 3 Pyramids & A Sphynx
Did any of you believe for one moment that MB would land in Cairo for any reason and not give you all a full MB account of the Pyramids?! Three Pyramids at Giza. But there’s more to that pic than...
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A Sudani Wedding in Cairo – The Cave Church
With most of the day still to kill before the evening wedding party, guide & taxi driver Suliman suggested a visit to the Cave Church, in the Coptic Christian area quite close to the Cairo...
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A Sudani Wedding in Cairo
Many moons back, ‘Young Sudan Lad’ (aka YSL) featured in many of MB’s posts, from his days in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. People move on in life and a lot of Nile water may have passed under the bridge...
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Sarajevo – Religion
MB just corrected a mistake in an earlier ‘Sarajevo’ post. The real reason that Sarajevo is know as the Jerusalem of Europe is because of the coexistence of the major Abrahamic religions in the city,...
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Mostar
During MB’s recent seasons trip to Bosnia & Herzegovina, he took a day trip to the historic old town of Mostar. Mostar’s bridge is probably its most famous and loved asset, spanning the Neretva...
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Sarajevo – The Jerusalem of Europe
MB took a short trip to Sarajevo, capital city of Bosnia & Herzegovina (B&H) during the recent Eid break. The city has much past and recent history which attracts tourists from all over the...
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BUSAN, KOREA
A sad Busan story was recounted to MB by tour guide Mr Suyang Chang in recent days, concerning a fisherman, a mermaid and a dragon. The fisherman caught a mermaid Princess in his net and soon love...
View ArticleTrain to Busan – Made it!
MB departed flight QR 838 from Doha into Incheon airport concourse, the international airport of Seoul, capital of S Korea. MB was traveling light, just a carry-on bag for his mini-Korea trip to visit...
View ArticleTrain to Busan
In July 2023, only a few months back, the US military announced they had moved a nuclear submarine to Busan in the south east tip of South Korea. Days later, North Korean President Kim Jong Un (&...
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Sofia & Maria – Time Moves On
It’s been quite a while, more than two years in fact, since MB updated followers about young Lebanese girls Sofia & Maria and their Qatar-based Middle East (ME) lives. MB bumped into S&F’s mom...
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